Cal Poly Pomona College of Business Administration
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Noteworthy News and Recognitions The College of Business Administration is proud of our student, alumni, faculty and staff achievements and our continuous progress in providing transformative experiential learning opportunities and educating the next generation of global business leaders.
The College was recognized as 5th in the nation for awarding bachelor’s degrees to minority students. (Source: Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
The College ranks No. 35 in Money magazine’s “2018 Best Colleges for Business Majors” in the United States.
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Forbes named Cal Poly Pomona one of America’s Best Value Colleges for 2018, placing it No. 66 out of 300 schools recognized as the nation’s best for students’ return on investment.
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The College will be offering a new Master of Science in Business Analytics program that focuses on the implication of business analytics on various business functional areas and prepares students with competencies to lead data-driven organization changes.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) reaccredited undergraduate and graduate programs at the College of Business Administration after the College showed progress in sustaining innovation, engagement and impact during the AACSB’s Continuous Improvement Review. Less than 5 percent of business schools worldwide have earned this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education.
The College received a $1 million anonymous gift to launch the Center for Innovative Analytics.
Online resource College Factual named the College among the Top 15% of business schools in the nation.
As one of the nine colleges at Cal Poly Pomona, we proudly share in the University’s achievements, which speak to the value of our students’ education in terms of academics, career preparation and future financial stability.
U.S. News & World Report named Cal Poly Pomona No. 4 among “Top Public Schools” in the west and No. 28 overall in the western region.
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The Equality of Opportunity Project ranked the University No. 9 in the nation at raising students’ socioeconomic mobility to the top fifth from the bottom fifth of income distribution.
Pomona, as part of the Los Angeles County proposal, placed among Amazon HQ2’s Top 20 with a joint Amazon Poly Plex (Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona Fairplex and City of Pomona) proposal. The College was a principal contributor.
The College of Business Administration’s finance program was accepted into the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program. Cal Poly Pomona is only the sixth university in Southern California to earn the distinction. Starting in 2005 and continuous through 2021, the College and Cal Poly Pomona have been named a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/ Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Contract Management program in the Finance, Real Estate, and Law department was awarded 1st place in the Contract Management Education Award in the undergraduate category by the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) in 2017.
Cal Poly Pomona earned a three-year National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to identify promising research and development projects on campus and find ways to commercialize them. Cal Poly Pomona is only one of three California State Universities and one of 10 California institutions to receive the grant of approximately $50,000 per year. The California Department of Community Service & Development awarded $344,205 to the College, Cal Poly Pomona and four other California State Universities to support the VITA program. The College received a $250,000 gift from Dolores Barselotti, emeritus faculty from the International Business and Marketing department. Nirmal Sethia, emeritus professor of Management and Human Resources, and Tara Sethia, professor of History, gave $50,000 to establish the Jagdish N. Sheth Award for Scholarly Excellence.
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